Yoruba council worldwide ably led by Aare Oladotun Hassan Esq has condemned the attacks on the office of Iyaloja General, Chief Mrs Folashade Tinubu Ojo by the Igbo Indigenous Traders of Ikeja computer market, launches Yoruba Oba’s summit tagged the Monarchs.
Addressing the Media in a press conference at the organization’s head office on tuesday, 3rd of September, 2024, Aare Oladotun Hassan Esq described the attacks on the office of Iyaloja General by the Igbo Extractions of Ikeja market as an attempt to destroy Yoruba’s age long traditional rites and customs of the ancestral roles of this office.
Iyalojas are traditional heads of the market institutions being installed by the Kings in their respective domains with statutory rites and responsibilities to administer and charge levies on all market women and men which is globally known to everybody but because of the premeditated evil agenda of the Igbo speaking association of the market to cause calculated war of attrition, mayhem and strive, they decided to be attacking our ancestral heritage. Aare Oladotun Hassan said.
The president of the association used the medium to call on the Governors of South-West particularly the Governor of Lagos State, HE Babajide Olusola Sanwoolu to speedily investigate this matter and do the needful before the situation gets out of hand.
We are the most peaceful tribe in this country, we accommodate everybody for peaceful business arrangements but we will not fail to uphold the tenet of our tradition by resisting any attempt to undermine our heritage as a tribe even if it means shutting down the market through protest, our organization will not hesitate to do that because nobody can try to go against the heritage of Igbos on their soil. He said.
To buttress the press conference, Chief Mrs Falilat Lawal, the Iyaloja General of the source has said all Iyaloja Generals are representatives of Kings in the markets and this has been in existence right from the time of the late Chief Habibatu Mogaji.
There should be no fight between Igbos and Yorubas because of markets, we all appear in markets to buy and sell and Kings who are the owners of the markets can decide to appoint whoever they like as the leader of their markets. Chief Mrs Falilat Lawal said.
Chief Mrs Folashade Tinubu Ojo remains the leader of all Iyaloja Generals in Nigeria and all Iyaloja Generals across the states and local governments are under her, any attempt to attack her and her office will be a Clarion to all Iyaloja Generals to March down across the Nation to resist this barbaric act of the Igbos. She said
Mrs Falilat Lawal warned the Igbos not to call for the fight of the females in Yoruba land. We will fight with everything that we have as females to defend our Iyaloja General, therefore, we beseech the Igbos to allow peace to rein.
In the same vein, the Yoruba Council Worldwide used the medium to launch Yoruba Obas Summit tagged the Monarchs 2024 which will be holding in November later this year at the palace of Oba Saheed Elegushi in Ikate, Lekki Lagos.
The summit is expected to be a gathering of Yoruba Royal Fathers where issues pertaining to illegal removal Kings, 15% of the federation account reserved for the kings under Tinubu’s administration, unbearable Land use act and so on will be rigorously discussed.
Aare Oladotun Hassan Esq, the president of Yoruba Council Worldwide used the medium of the press conference to invite Royal fathers and Governors across the Yoruba speaking states to the upcoming summit.